Revenge, Italian Style

Two radically different policewomen, and a dead doctor 

It's summer at Lake Como. The heat is making the air shimmer on the streets when Commissaria Giovanna Ruggieri of the Como police receives news of a murder. On Comacina, the only island in the lake, the respected and well-liked doctor Simone Fabrizio from Menaggio has been shot. Almost at the same time, Inspector Maria di Bartolomeo in the small lakeside town of Bellano is handling a fatal traffic accident involving a man who apparently lost control of his car at night. The clues soon lead Giovanna and Maria to a place where – twenty years earlier – the two men got caught in a far-reaching, dark secret.

The opening volume of a vacation mystery series set in the summery, lakeside landscape of Lombardy

Two female police detectives – one, a commissioner who is a loner, the other an inspector with a chaotic family – solve their first case

For all readers who dream of delicious food, a lot of sun, passionate characters, and a landscape full of history and beauty: in a word of Italian “Dolce Vita”